Yet this eludes the very issue that I’m raising. “Facts are simply the way that things are” means what in your own perspective? Is ‘the way that thing...
Funny, I’m not a correspondence theorist of truth only on grounds that for me truth is (pithily expressed) “fidelity to that which is objective realit...
Thank you for your own views, TS. If you are upholding that facts are not relative to feelings and beliefs, but to themselves, how do you establish th...
Empiricism—arguably, much like Cynicism and Skepticism—no longer means in today’s popular culture what it initially meant. Empiricism—what the natural...
I’m with this post trying to better understand what the relativists actually uphold in regard to facticity. … First, a current event: USA has recently...
Not according the to model of spacetime which breaks down and thereby leads to the inference of a gravitational singularity. I agree that the whole st...
Ah, but these stated givens don’t exist because they were named. They were named, and conceptualized, because they exist. And no, one does not need to...
Given a model of language where words are akin to culturally preformed boxed within which we can place concepts and then pass them along to others—thi...
These are adequate contexts in reference to our concept of a gravitational singularity, which stands out as one concept among many others. Were the gr...
noAxioms, Sorry for the delay in replying. Getting back to where we left off: You’ll have to explain this better. The main crux that I don’t yet under...
How would you address this reasoning?: The background to the sum of all existents either exists or does not. If it exists in some way, it is contained...
Interesting way of putting it. No, you’re right, this approach need not be contradictory. I get bogged down in the details, though. And, as I expresse...
Though a bit off-topic, I wanted to comment: I’m on board with the general perspective you’ve mentioned: namely, that what our collective, most impart...
Hey, no worries. Been thinking about this some more: potential categories of existence and inexistence. You’re right, it’s a hefty topic … one I’m sti...
This delineation, however, does a disservice to the form of realism that noAxioms wants to uphold: one that does away with all possible notions of ide...
MU, I’ve already addressed this possibility. The following is from what I previously posted to you: So the question I last placed stands despite us no...
All very valid. Yet why should it be proscribed to refer to the underlying concepts I’ve so far addressed —which have been addressed in due context—as...
A difficult question, but I’ll offer that our choices under such circumstances are nevertheless voluntary—at least as a general rule. If I like Vermee...
What alternative(s) are there to explain life’s appearance given a time when life did not physically exist? As per wiktionary, it can also mean: (1) I...
Can I do this without citing anything? Its “turn your other cheek”: a very worrier-for-peace mentality that was likely sometimes played out in blood b...
Even if one’s definition of “intersubjectivity” would have it so, there yet occurs overlap in umwelts between species. As one example, no relation bet...
In principle, I’ll answer my own metaphysical justifications by referring back to my last post—a loose outline of my justifications though it is. But ...
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head: economy is always subject to politics. Otherwise stated on one of many, more concrete planes: shares of cash ...
Your comments are very much appreciated. As to my presumption that life evolved from nonlife, if I’m allowed to indulge in my own metaphysical views f...
Though I'm for some reason weary of unnecessarily stirring up more waters ... My current thoughts concerning semiotics are in some ways at a crossroad...
I’ve been hesitant about posting this, but, then again, to some unknown reader it might be a worthy thing to address. Hypothesize a suicidal person. L...
Hey, blushing here. Thanks, though. You got me thinking some more about life and reproduction. From previous arguments and examples, I obviously uphol...
Worker bees serve as another example of life that does not reproduce. Less genetically predetermined but nevertheless real is the non-reproduction of ...
So there’s agreement that tornados are not alive, and are thereby literally inanimate, since they don’t have that which is essential to defining physi...
Groovy; so then there’s no disagreement that metabolism—again stated, regardless of its underlying metaphysics—serves as the essence by which life is ...
How does (healthy) metabolism not imply the presence of homeostasis and repair? Can empirical examples of the first devoid of either of the latter be ...
The confusion arises from your criticism of metabolism being the essence of life; more specifically, from your statements that there is a duality betw...
Accounts such as those of Evan Thompson in the book Mind in Life (2007) have it otherwise. If you are addressing nucleic acids replication, isn't nucl...
I’ve come across similar information in passing—though I haven’t paid close attention to it. Apparently the consensus is that it’s a plant’s roots whi...
This consensus by most biologists is most likely real. Still, some burgeoning fields of biology do uphold plants to have intelligence and, therefore, ...
The reference to reproduction appears to allude to biological fitness. Still, for a given to have biological fitness, it must first be living. Life, o...
Wanted to throw this out there: First, there’s a distinction between a) physical life and b) a set of non-physical, mystico-poetic concepts of life—su...
Going back to the OP: I don’t believe any visual field content could be experienced if fully devoid of a simultaneous convergence with some sensed mea...
X-) ... with a little bit of LOL. It's an issue of taste: I for one in high school always wanted (not realistically mind you) an international naked f...
Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye dealt a great deal with the concept of fakeness. Fakeness, then, is the antonym to authenticity. I don’t have a nifty ph...
Say you’re in a movie theater watching a movie: you can be authentically enjoying it or not. If you are, you get lost within the story while it unfold...
Understanding holds the etymology of “inter-standing”: e.g., that which is between the two or more folks that understand the same given referent. For ...
I’m aware of the Nim project and of his biting of assistant’s faces, etc. I'd say that chimps will do things in times of war amongst themselves that t...
In case this is still of interested … Chimps can be the most violent lesser animal I know of. Last thing anyone would want to do is live with one. I w...
No lesser lifeform has a narrative of what pain is, yet they all react to it the same way we do. So doing requires some degree of non-narrative though...
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